6833- Don't bother to burn an X in my head, I'm already dead.

Called in sick today- I’m totally wiped out.

If they need anything urgent, I can launch it remotely… the rest of my time is going to be spent in or around bed.

Some evil Aztec sorcerer is messing with my digestive tract, and is drying out my skin. Or maybe it’s a side effect of Disney World’s weather control device used to relocate Charley.

I wonder if it’s true that prehistoric burial involved putting a corpse in the ground so that it could be reborn, like a plant, or if it was just a method of cleanup… having bodies just laying around can’t be terribly sanitary.

6832 – By hook or by crook…

I’m not a number… but even if I were, wouldn’t that still make me unique?

I look grumpy in a blazer.
(image mercilessly swiped and edited from GURPS the Prisoner)

The idea of a Gilligan’s Island / Prisoner crossover makes me laugh and cry at the same time. Zombies in the village would be a hoot, too. Small population, closed system.

I’d love to vacation in the village, but being stuck there has very little appeal to me. I get a little stir crazy when I know that I have to stay in to be on call. I do carry equivalents of an employment card, a card of identity, a health and welfare care and a credit card already.

Somehow, I suspect that if I were ever to be taken to a place like that, it’d be because the masters think I knows something they want, but actually doesn’t.

I don’t think that music makes a quiet mind.

Calling someone number 2 tickles a scatological element of my funny bone. (same for Number one, for that matter. Sorry, Riker.)


About that Stormtrooper wedding… on thinking about it.. isn’t that maybe a little too close to a sci-fi version of a Nazi-themed wedding?

Speaking of Nazi weddings, that brings to mind Wagners “Wedding March – Lohengrin” He was someone elevated quite a bit by Hitler and gang. Even though Wagner died well before Hitler ever rose to power, he was by most reports an anti-Semite, an adulterer, and a world class jerk even without those first two categories being filled. Fortunately, I tend not to think an artist’s moral credentials should be considered too much when evaluating their work… otherwise, I’d probably hate most music made in my lifetime, let alone art through history.


Adsense dropped me, without paying. I smell a rat. They owed me over $150, and claim I violated terms of service. It looks like someone was hammering my site with a bot, though the hammer was coming out of AOL, I’m still out of luck. So, I guess that means if someone you don’t like has adsense on their page, you can stop them from getting paid by hammering them, repeatedly. I wonder how long before some script kiddies take advantage of that piece of knowledge?

Ah well, I still get $40 a month for my static ads on my home page. That pays for hosting, online CoH, and $15 worth of fun money a month to drop on whatever.

Instead of pitching a fit, I threw two new games in the toybox. connect four and curveball. (curveball gets tricky about level 8)


I’m in the mood to walk on tall, thin grass in bare feet.



Steve Tyler is a Salt Vampire. (via)

I’ve been wondering lately about how impermanent a mark this journal is, at least online. In fifty years, will there still be a livejournal? If I print it out and save it in book form, the cross-referenced links become pointless, although most links die quickly on the web anyway. Even remotely-hosted images vanish as time goes by. the dynamic aspect of comments goes away with printing, too. Even though a lot of the fun links would be sacrificed, I think I will print out and store my journal, just for the heck of it. I wonder how many sheets of paper this beast would take up? I have been maintaining it since the turn of the century, after all. I’d burn it to a CD, but that seems so transitory, too… most computers don’t have floppy-drives included anymore, will there be CD drives even a decade from now? Maybe just burn it to CD and keep it on the inside front cover as a memento of time long past, before whatever wacky storage formats drive the poor discs into landfills.

I don’t think it’s vain of me to want to leave my journal behind for other people to read… maybe it’s because I’m nosy, and like to read other journals myself, but I think that there are some goodies inside that someone might want to see later on, even if that someone is me. I like reading my old entries and being reminded of things in my life. I know I’ll want to see pictures of Newt as a baby, dealings with whatever drama, saved conversations with mi Ornj, crude palm doodles, and whatever was nifty to me at the time.


Now leaving the Northern Perimeter.

Be Seeing you, Dear journal.


Archives –

1 year ago – I’m a geisha, Newt!, groovy music, interviewed at current gig, WWtracking, Burgertum

2 years ago – Mac virus, got a play set, 25mm floorplans, Egyptian law, stickman down stairs, reparations

3 years ago – 51 things learned from playing champions (27 changed?), concinnity. Stuckey’s pecan log rolls, pac-man fevah

4 years ago – bakery dog, 10 truths, 10 liesSite Meter

6831 – Training toughness

It’s been difficult to keep EN on target with his training. He likes to talk, and is easily sidetracked… If I don’t keep him reigned-in, we go off-topic completely for too long. I have a lot of trouble keeping him on track for any extended period, and Rhode Island sits across the hall listening, getting passive-aggressive about the whole thing, giving both of us the cold shoulder when we left. That doesn’t do anything to improve matters. [yehdtjiom < --Newt on keyboard] The only reason I’m having him come in at all before putting him on call is so I can observe him during a live session.

Either way, tomorrow when he comes in, it’s strictly work, no sidebars, just to keep everyone happy and healthy.


Interesting LJ feature still being tested – Recent comments, works for your lj account, and any communities you maintain. That’ll help a *lot* with the menstrualhut.

It seems that the last comment in the live_journalia community was 34 weeks ago! (and the one before that was well over a year past.)


Holy Moley! Thank you Oneeyed and Granny for the *very, very* generous gift! Wow! I’ll let you know how I used it as soon as I figure out what to do! I suspect The Complete Daimajin (Daimajin/Wrath of Daimajin/Return of Daimajin) will be on my list… it’s been tempting me since I found it was available on DVD as well as The Plastic Man Archives, Vol. 1. Wonderful, very “Scotto” splurge items I’ve been licking my chops at for more than a brief while.

*Big Ol’ Hugs*


Stormtrooper wedding at Fairyland

6829 – snippets and bites

Well, no dice getting together with the oneeyed and the gang… one of their number wanted to return home once the power was on, so it’ll have to be next time. Maybe I’ll take a day-trip north to see the Edison / Ford Estates and lunch their neck of the woods! I’m glad they made it home ok, and that there was very little personal damage waiting for them.


Bro scammed the Mother out of about $150, claiming it was court costs. Lawyer said there were none, and Bro claims there wasn’t any receipt. Liar. That dumbass burned that bridge, now, too.


I convinced the PR department to not do Donkey Basketball as a fund raiser. Plenty of other fun ways to bring people together and donate money… no need to bring any animal cruelty or PETA picketers to the table.


Apparently T-Mobile was giving away free service all hurricane weekend. Good for you guys! You deserve some praise for that!


I fell asleep far too early last night, something like seven or so… I think I was fatigued from all of the stress over the missing Alabama boy. We were really scrambling the whole time I was at the office

I woke up at about 2:30am, got a drink of water and puttered for about an hour before trying to go back to bed. I really am a night person at heart… That was one of the nice things about IMT – the 4pm to midnight schedule.


how to make a scale model of a city


*really* nice tutorial on how to write tile-based games in flash. via


I’m in the mood for some really good Tandoori Indian food lately… something better than . This bears some research. I’ll have to sniff out my local sources and see what they prefer.


I’ve got to focus more on more than just these little bits and pieces… the journal’s been scattered lately, and I could stand more writing practice. flying_blind‘s recent excellent entry reminded me of this.


Dear Lenny Kravitz – Don’t help the gap. You don’t want to be in there with SJP.


My entry about the Lumbee Indians is still getting activity, over two years after the first casting about for information about Roanoke. Until that research arc, I thought that the colonists had been massacred.


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I still have the itch to do a cemetery stroll and look up Miguelito Loveless.


It’s true, I live inside the spread of one of the corners of the Bermuda Triangle. (Usually, the points are Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami, but they’ve been known to vary.) I wonder what major areas of supernatural repute are near folks on my friend’s list? Transylvanians? Amity? I know there’s a “stonehenger” or two.


Saturn has 33 verified moons, now. Continue reading 6829 – snippets and bites

6828 – Alabama

We’re in Tuskaloosa, Alabama for 10 minutes, and already I have a case.

Missing 8-year old boy… left for school, and wasn’t on the bus when it arrived.

I hope he just missed the ride, or is playing hooky. I do know that there’s a sexual predator with a history of pedophilia two and a half miles from where the boy was last seen.

sexual predator info-

http://www.dps.state.al.us/public/abi/system/so/details.asp?id=3525

missing kid is a black male, 4′, 75lbs, brown eyes, black hair, wearing a red, gray, black top, black shorts w/white stripe, b/w shoes, black blu pack. been missing since 8:50am Central.

The org’s already placed nearly 20,000 calls looking for him.

[edit – Kid returned home safely, he took the bus to the wrong special ed school. Happy ending all around. ]

6827 – I don’t smoke cigarettes.

Big Kahuna’s in Alabama all this week, opening the state to local law enforcement.


I may be going out to a late lunch with oneeyed and crew after work.I wonder where a good place to dine might be? Some Options

I woke up *voracious*… I could devour a pile of waffles right now.


Philip K. Dick – How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later


divide by zero’s free fonts – I really dig geodesic, levity and two turtle doves


Last night’s fortune cookie.

“You have unusual equipment for success, use it properly.”
Daily Numbers 5 0 8
Lotto Six #’s 39 45 36 37 18 27

What, no Chinese Lesson? I’ll resist making any rude “in bed” cookie comment suffix this go ’round.


Found another subset of NOAA’s site, this time it’s South Florida Specific.

Recently re-discovered the lightning strike site, too – Strikes within the last 3 seconds will appear as a yellow bolt. Older strikes will appear as mostly red and blue dots. The smaller the dots, the older the strike. Red and blue indicates cloud-to-ground strokes. Lavender and purple indicates cloud-to-cloud strokes. The display typically reflects a total of the last 20 minutes activity for any given period.

FEMA has now declared 25 counties in Florida as disaster areas. That’s good news for those victims further inland. Aid will be more readily available for the rebuilding efforts.

Storms rolled through central Florida this afternoon – 2000+ lightening strikes recorded in an hour with more than 3” of rain in spots. According to local news additional rain will coming in off of the gulf in the Punta Gorda & North Port areas now.

They are expecting to put a figure to the fatalities in Lee County sometime tomorrow. One optimistic thing is that many people in the hardest hit areas had left for the summer, so it is possible the number will be lower than expected.

The Bradenton Herald is a very good source for information.

The Red Cross is still requesting monetary contributions and that information can be found HERE. They are still the quickest way to get water, food, shelter and comfort to the victims.

As a petty / karmic redemption side note, I hope that this disaster milks every penny out of the evil, evil, evil Liberty Mutual company.


Photos of Disney World preparations, and post-storm Hurricane Charley. (I’m surprised they didn’t just cover the park with a big plastic dome topped with mouse ears.) Interesting to see all the hanging signs tethered in place. (The last thing anyone needs is to be impaled by a flying bit of Jungle Cruise sign.) He’s got other nifty shots, too… like the construction of Expedition Everest.

I’d like to have this as a Disclaimer all around my property. (for web-cam usage)


It strikes me as funny that people don’t think of Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Egypt as Oriental. It’s not called the Middle East for nothing, y’know. I wonder if Arabs were *ever* referred to as “Orientals” in the old days, before that term was made politically incorrect? I still Figure myself to be an “Occidental“.. “The Orient” is a much niftier term than “Eastern Lands.”


Interesting portraiture by Mary Ellen Mark. Circus Folk in India, including a Hippo Trainer and little people in monkey suits.


Going over LJ’s stats.

It looks like the male population is dwindling, at less than a third of the total gender specified userbase.

Where I fall out of 4,179,761 accounts

I have –

  • Updated in the last 24 hours (like 268,799 others)
  • Permanent account – something like 0.0003% of the users here (one of 1618)
  • Most popular county – USA (2,035,801)
  • 2nd most popular State – Florida (191,899)
  • Of the very few 35 year olds (7379) (and the numbers dwindle each year!)

6827 – I don't smoke cigarettes.

Big Kahuna’s in Alabama all this week, opening the state to local law enforcement.


I may be going out to a late lunch with oneeyed and crew after work.I wonder where a good place to dine might be? Some Options

I woke up *voracious*… I could devour a pile of waffles right now.


Philip K. Dick – How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later


divide by zero’s free fonts – I really dig geodesic, levity and two turtle doves


Last night’s fortune cookie.

“You have unusual equipment for success, use it properly.”
Daily Numbers 5 0 8
Lotto Six #’s 39 45 36 37 18 27

What, no Chinese Lesson? I’ll resist making any rude “in bed” cookie comment suffix this go ’round.


Found another subset of NOAA’s site, this time it’s South Florida Specific.

Recently re-discovered the lightning strike site, too – Strikes within the last 3 seconds will appear as a yellow bolt. Older strikes will appear as mostly red and blue dots. The smaller the dots, the older the strike. Red and blue indicates cloud-to-ground strokes. Lavender and purple indicates cloud-to-cloud strokes. The display typically reflects a total of the last 20 minutes activity for any given period.

FEMA has now declared 25 counties in Florida as disaster areas. That’s good news for those victims further inland. Aid will be more readily available for the rebuilding efforts.

Storms rolled through central Florida this afternoon – 2000+ lightening strikes recorded in an hour with more than 3” of rain in spots. According to local news additional rain will coming in off of the gulf in the Punta Gorda & North Port areas now.

They are expecting to put a figure to the fatalities in Lee County sometime tomorrow. One optimistic thing is that many people in the hardest hit areas had left for the summer, so it is possible the number will be lower than expected.

The Bradenton Herald is a very good source for information.

The Red Cross is still requesting monetary contributions and that information can be found HERE. They are still the quickest way to get water, food, shelter and comfort to the victims.

As a petty / karmic redemption side note, I hope that this disaster milks every penny out of the evil, evil, evil Liberty Mutual company.


Photos of Disney World preparations, and post-storm Hurricane Charley. (I’m surprised they didn’t just cover the park with a big plastic dome topped with mouse ears.) Interesting to see all the hanging signs tethered in place. (The last thing anyone needs is to be impaled by a flying bit of Jungle Cruise sign.) He’s got other nifty shots, too… like the construction of Expedition Everest.

I’d like to have this as a Disclaimer all around my property. (for web-cam usage)


It strikes me as funny that people don’t think of Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Egypt as Oriental. It’s not called the Middle East for nothing, y’know. I wonder if Arabs were *ever* referred to as “Orientals” in the old days, before that term was made politically incorrect? I still Figure myself to be an “Occidental“.. “The Orient” is a much niftier term than “Eastern Lands.”


Interesting portraiture by Mary Ellen Mark. Circus Folk in India, including a Hippo Trainer and little people in monkey suits.


Going over LJ’s stats.

It looks like the male population is dwindling, at less than a third of the total gender specified userbase.

Where I fall out of 4,179,761 accounts

I have –

  • Updated in the last 24 hours (like 268,799 others)
  • Permanent account – something like 0.0003% of the users here (one of 1618)
  • Most popular county – USA (2,035,801)
  • 2nd most popular State – Florida (191,899)
  • Of the very few 35 year olds (7379) (and the numbers dwindle each year!)

6826 – yikes – punta gorda details

I’m amazed at the level of damage in Punta Gorda… very reminiscent of the hurricane Andrew situation before. The thing that gets me is that very few people really took it seriously until it was too late… I think that’s thanks in now small part to TV news blowing *every* weather event totally out of proportion.

A million people without power, and two million people were asked to evacuate. I wonder how much damage will be caused by looting, and how many people are going to get gunshot wounds as a result of walking around in the wrong part of town, now that the weather has passed by.

For future ref-

6824 – The trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw.

Took myself out to lunch and a movie yesterday afternoon. AvP was much less than what I expected. Very poorly directed… the last thing I want from an action movie is to be bored. It made me want to go back to play the first person shooter, so maybe that’s what they were going for… more video game sales. The effects were quite good, but that’s about it… I’m guessing they went pg-13 to bring in a younger contingent, and a lot of it could’ve been improved with more visual direction. I should’ve gone to see Bourne, instead.

Lunch was better… cheese trio sammich at Blimpie. I stopped off at the library after, to cool off before making the march home.

Note to self, bus schedules have changed, download new pdfs to palm.

I wonder how long it’ll be before they try for a Land of The Lost movie now? Or maybe Ultraman (in the US – I can’t seem to find any of the old Asian ones on Bittorrent)? I just like scary humanoids with big round eyes, and head-fins. (I already got my Rocketeer movie.)

Pictures from my day’s Walkabout:

6822 Thank goodness it’s Saturday.

Made it through another week!

I don’t know why I drew this guy… it just sort of doodled itself.


Did Laundry, and gave the cab driver some much needed schooling on how to do his job, including the art of pulling into the driveway, and giving him the tip of “next time, offer to help with my double armload of things, or at least offer to help with the door. I’m usually a good tipper, but now you get nothing.” And paid his exact fare in laundry quarters. He cussed me out as he drove off, so I called the cab company, and reported him for his poor behavior.


Up late, slept late… there wasn’t even any rain for me last night, unlike so much of the regions North –

Orlando Sentinel’s Blogging of what happenedcopied here for future reference

6822 Thank goodness it's Saturday.

Made it through another week!

I don’t know why I drew this guy… it just sort of doodled itself.


Did Laundry, and gave the cab driver some much needed schooling on how to do his job, including the art of pulling into the driveway, and giving him the tip of “next time, offer to help with my double armload of things, or at least offer to help with the door. I’m usually a good tipper, but now you get nothing.” And paid his exact fare in laundry quarters. He cussed me out as he drove off, so I called the cab company, and reported him for his poor behavior.


Up late, slept late… there wasn’t even any rain for me last night, unlike so much of the regions North –

Orlando Sentinel’s Blogging of what happenedcopied here for future reference

6821 Friday, Friday… Friday the 13th.

The closer the time comes for the big kahuna to leave town, the more irritable and stressed she becomes. She bites off more than she can chew inside the time frame allotted to her,

Looks like non-pierce tech is doing a fadeout. He hasn’t called all week. He didn’t seem like a big hit, so no big whoop.

20,000 leagues under the sea – The ride. I really dig the quicktime video of the ride.. very nostalgic. I remember sitting on the fold down seats and being inside on my own, while my dad and mom went to get some ice cream or the like for my brother, who was perhaps four at the time. (that’d put me at eight-ish.) The last time I got to ride it was the summer of ’87. (when I was 18, almost a decade later.) After that, the ride was closed for renovations every time I visited. I still remember the pseudo Disney squeezebox music waiting on line… It was in my top three rides with the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Speaking of that fellow, my Bro got 2 years probation, despite the fact that he showed up at court with beer on his breath, and was saying idiot phrases like “if I’m convicted, I can’t have a gun”. I don’t know where his brains went, but they’ve long since been disbursed. I know in my heart that if his probation officer is worth anything at all, my bro will be jailed before the year is done.

I really don’t like it when reanimated corpses vomit on me, and even less so when the explosive charges inside them go off afterwards. (dang supervillains in CoH!)

Well, it looks like Chuck the Storm is going to miss my neck of the woods entirely. Power went out last night at about 1:30m, and heavy rain woke me up before knocking me back to sleep. Sorry Charlie. (how many times will I hear that in the days to come?) I hope it cuts everyone else some decent slack, too!

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Red vs. Blue cover the Internet. (foul language, and mentions escrow) – via sammykun (more RvB here.)


The Horny toad is not a toad. It’s a Lizard.


6820 – Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

My head is just bouncing around topics this morning.

Random stuff, all, undivided by the hr-tag I use so much these days:

I used to get Lea Thompson and Ally Sheedy mixed up. Same goes for Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

I think the whole thing about dark matter / dark energy seems unlikely.

I could never remember the name of Doug Wu’s friend Tony who gamed with us as Silver Hammer, until I realized it was like the two main characters on Time Tunnel. Doug is in Seattle now, and Tony was lost to the social cult of Amway.

Some poor woman was trapped in the building’s elevator yesterday. I got to try and talk calmly to her and keep her from freaking out until the fire department arrived. That office space has the same stuff since the 50’s… It reminded me of when my sweetheart nearly got her arm bitten off by a carnivator in her old office spacer.

I did my apheresis (Plateletpheresis) yesterday, for the first time in a long while… it feels really good perform a charity while laying on a couch and watching cartoons.

I have terrible night vision.

I have a high threshold of pain, but once you pass it, I’m done.

Rhode Island plays with a pair of crystals (amethyst and quartz) as a form of nervous fidget. I can’t help but think of Queeg’s ball bearings in The Caine Mutiny whenever I hear her clacking them together.

1 year ago – Neverwhere, childhood memories circa ’74-75ish – lunch and Tonka toys, linked to hulk’s blog, bro stuff, Elvis & his prosthetic limb factory

2 years ago – Spanish TV, broken links, new he-man cartoon, mark quits FMM before he’s caught stealing, puppy pictures and palm doodles.

3 years ago – Soylent Green Tea Ice Cream at the Frieze in Miami, after seeing Kiss of the Dragon with my bro, cavort, first exp w/ Samurai Jack, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

4 years ago – saw the hollow man movie, and played Everway, day before sleep study.

Oh, I can’t resist. Some HR goodness. until later, dear journal.









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